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(Application med Sept. 28, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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CHARLES W. BEEHLER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI;

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sEcI'FIoATIoN formingpart of Letters Patent No. 638,166, dated Novemberas, 1899. Application niet septeiterza, 189s. serialNo. 6925099.diamond.)

To all whom t may oon/cern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. BEEHLER, a citizen of the United States,residing at the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bins, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to bins for holding merchandise, such as coffee andother cereals, the object of the invention being to provide a meanswhereby the merchandise may be maintained within the bin at a point nearits upper end,so as to be within convenient reach to be readily dishedfrom the bin.

To this end my invention consists in a iiexible bag suspended within thebin proper, and a roller and straps,arranged as hereinafter set forth,for elevating the lower portion of said bag, so as to raise the contentstherein.

My invention further consists in features of novelty which will behereinafter fully described.

Figure I is a perspective view of my improved bin with the door thereofelevated and portions of the bin-walls shown broken away. Fig. II is avertical transverse section of the bin with the door closed and the bagin its lowermost position. Fig. III is an enlarged vertical transversesection of the upper portion of the bin,showing the bag elevatedtherein. Fig. IV is an enlarged detail view of the gripping-handle bywhich the reel-roller of the bag-elevating means is operated.

1 designates the bin proper, which may be l of common form, such as isat present used for holding merchandise in grocery stores. The bin isclosed by a door composed of two sections 2 and 3. The door-section 2 isconnected to the rear wall of the bin by hinges 4, and this section isadapted to be held to the bin by catches 5, located on the interior ofthe bin. The door-section 3 is connected to the section 2 by hinges 6.It will therefore be seen that the door-section 2 may be held securelyclosed by the catches 5, while access is permitted to the interior ofthe bin on opening the door-section 3, which is the only part of thedoor there is any necessity of opening when merchandise is being removedfrom the bin. When, however, the operating mechanism, to be described,is to be manipulated, the catches 5 may be disengaged and the entiredoor may be opened, as shown in Fig. I.

7 is a liexible bag suspended within the bin proper and secured to thebin only at its upper edges.

S designatesa roller the ends of which are journaled in the side wallsof the bin 1, and 9 are straps connected to the front upperportion ofthe bag 7 or to the front Wall of the bin. These straps 9 pass throughstay-strips 10, down the front, across the bottom, and up the rear ofthe bag 7. The straps are connected to the roller 8 and are designed tobe wound thereon to draw the bag upward for the purpose of raising thecontents of such bag as the merchandise is removed therefrom in orderthat the contents of the bag may be maintained near the upper end of thebin, Within convenient reach. The roller 8 is operated by means of agripping-handle 11, that is provided with a spring-strap 12, thatencircles the roller and is caused to grip the roller on a pressure inone direction, while a movement of the handle in the opposite directionloosens the gripping-strap, permitting the handle to be thrown back totake another grip upon theroller. Retrograde movement of the roller 8 isprevented by a pawl l3-engaging ratchet-teeth 8a on the roller.

111 is a partition located beneath the roller 8 and adapted to preventthe contents of the bin from falling behind the rear portion of the bag7 and dropping to the bottom of the bin outside the bag.

l5 designates a strip located in the lower front corner of the bag 7,which is adapted to hold the bag straight at this corner, and also toserve as a stop to prevent the bag from being drawn up behind thepartition 14 and becoming caught between such partition and the rearwall of the bin.

In the use of my improved bin the merchandise is placed therein with thebag suspended in full, as shown in Fig. Il. When the merchandise becomeslower in the bin byV the extraction of the contents, the catches 5 arereleased and the entire door 2 o is elevated, thereby permitting of thegrippinghandle 11 being reached and manipulated to IOO Wind the straps 9onto the roller 8. When by such manipulation of the handle 411 the baghas been raised sufeiently to bring the bin contents into convenientreach, the door is again closed and the section 2 is held closed by thecatches 5 until such time as it may be again desirable to elevate thecontents of the bin, owing to their becoming so loW as to beinconvenient to reach.

I claim as my invention- 1. In a bin, the combination of the bin proper,a bag suspended in said bin proper, straps extending around thedepending portion of Said bag, and a roller on which said CHARLES W.BEEHLER.

In presence of E. S. KNIGHT, N. V. ALEXANDER.

